🌕 THAT 🌑

The Old Editor is getting tired of putting "that" back where it belongs.
Journalists commonly remove "that" from their copy. John McIntyre frequently puts "that" back in.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/language-blog/93044514-132.html

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⛰when to use articles with mountains ⛰🏔⛰

THE: The Alps, The Himalayas, The Rocky Mountains ⛰🏔⛰

🅾️ ZERO ARTICLE: Mount Everest, Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Mulanje ⛰

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⚪️🖌 No need for a hyphen in words that end with –long.

For example, it’s hourlong, daylong, yearlong.

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🚶‍♀️- street smarts (noun) [plural] 🏃🚶🕺

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📚 - book-smart (adj.)
🌀 - street-smart (adj.) = streetwise

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A group for advanced learner's of English.

Note: it's not for practising English through chatting (hi, hello —-> ✖️ ).

https://t.me/joinchat/AAAAAEARo345bgyJykGcRQ

If I had to describe this person in just one phrase, I would say "down to earth" 👍👍👍🌹🌹

✳️ I wish I was - I wish I were ✴️

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Demur [dih-MUR] = to object; hesitate

Demure [dih-MYOOR] = shy

Fatimah, a *demure* 😳 girl, *demurred* when she was asked to model swimsuits. 👙

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💠 How to fix a COMMA SPLICE 🖌🖍🖋🛠🔧🔨 (4/1)

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💠 How to fix a COMMA SPLICE 🖌🖍🖋🛠🔧🔨 (4/2)

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💠 How to fix a COMMA SPLICE 🖌🖍🖋🛠🔧🔨 (4/3)

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💠 How to fix a COMMA SPLICE 🖌🖍🖋🛠🔧🔨 (4/4)

Is it ever okay to use a comma splice?

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😇 😈 🖌🖍🖋🛠🔧🔨

💠 - quixotic (adj.) /kwɪkˈsɒtɪk/ - mainly literary

~ a vast and perhaps quixotic project
~ a quixotic scheme to end the violence

origin: from Don Quixote + -ic

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✳️ homophones ✳️

▶️ homophones: - pause ⏸ - paws 🐾

➡️ pause /pɔːz/ ⬅️ paws
➡️ paw /pɔː/

🖌 antithesis (noun) /ænˈtɪθəsɪs/ - formal
plural ➡️ antitheses /-siːz/
~ He is the exact antithesis of what I find attractive in men.

🖋 antithetical (adj.) /ˌæntɪˈθetɪk(ə)l/
~ antithetical views